Speakers

Meet our esteemed speaker

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Vidita A. Vaidya

Professor Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Co-chair Deparment of Biological Sciences, TIFR
Serotonergic psychedelics - from molecules to mood
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Nachum Ulanovsky

Professor Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Head, Zuckerman Center for Learning, Memory & Cognition
Neuroscience going wild: Neural coding in social groups of bats and in bats navigating outdoors on a remote oceanic island
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Amita Sehgal

Faculty University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, US
School of Medicine
Metabolic basis of sleep
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Anita Jagota

Professor University of Hyderabad, India
School of Life Sciences
Clock Dynamics in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Therapeutic Interventions
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Christian Gonzalez-Billault

Professor Universidad de Chile, Chile
Cell Biology
Cell biology of the neuron, from development through aging
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Kausik Si

Scientific Director Stowers Institute, USA
Cell Biology and Physiology
Encoding memory in amyloids
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Manjari Tripathi

Professor All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Neurology
Magnetic source images for maximising precision
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Manuel Zimmer

Professor Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
EMBO Global Speaker
Neuronal population dynamics of sensory processing and decision making in C. elegans
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Sridharan Devarajan

Associate Professor Indian Institute of Science, India
Cognitive neuroscience lab
Tracking and training attention with a cognitive Brain Machine Interface
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Suhel Parvez

Professor Jamia Hamdard, India
Toxicology
Integration of Peripheral and Central Immune Alteration in Neurodegeneration
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Suhita Nadkarni

Associate Professor IISER, Pune, India
Biology
Synaptic Information Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease: Effects of Short-Term Release Changes on Transmission and Plasticity
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Vatsala Thirumalai

Professor National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
Neural Circuits and Development lab
Neural circuits generating behaviorally relevant predictions and their developmental emergence
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Vimlesh Kumar

Associate Professor IISER, Bhopal, India
Cell Biology
A degeneration checkpoint for G4C2 repeat neurotoxicity
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Lucina Uddin

Professor University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Brain Imaging
Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks
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Sabine Kastner

Professor Princeton Neuroscience Institute Psychology,
Princeton, NJ
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Brigitte Röder

Professor University of Hamburg, Germany
Brain Imaging
The role of visual experience for the development of recurrent processing in the human brain
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Dr. Usha Rajamma

Senior Scientist IUCBR & SSH, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
Autism
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Dr. Mehdi Hayat Shahi

Associate Professor Interdisciplinary Brain Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Tumor Biology
The Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) Cell Signaling Pathway is a formidable target for brain tumor therapy
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Prof. Thomas Gregor Issac

Associate Professor Centre for Brain Research, IISc, Bengaluru
Age related disorders
Understanding modifiable risk and resilience factors of Dementia in the Indian context